BCBS Global Solutions™ vs Transcend Timer

This app is for Blue Cross Blue Shield Global Solutions℠ (BCBS Global Solutions℠) members. With the BCBS Global Solutions app, members have convenient access to doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare resources around the world. Log in using the same username and password you use for the Member Portal, or register as a new user directly through the app. The BCBS Global Solutions app supports both Touch ID and Face ID. KEY FEATURES • Quickly find important plan details • Talk to a doctor or counselor through telemedicine • Track healthcare spending • View, print, or share your ID card • Easily submit a claim • Translate healthcare phrases and medication names from one country to another • Find healthcare providers and hospitals around the world • Get safety alerts and health risk information for cities and countries around the world • Access plan resources and important documents • Share information in the app with others and save your favorite items • Rate the app For more information about the app and how to access it, visit the BCBS Global Solutions Member Portal or refer to the materials you received with your plan. Blue Cross Blue Shield Global Solutions is the trade name of Worldwide Insurance Services, LLC (Worldwide Services Insurance Agency, LLC in California and New York), an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Blue Cross Blue Shield Global Solutions is a Brand owned by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. If you have questions about BCBS Global Solutions, contact us at bcsglobalsolutions.com/support/contact-us/ . [:mav: 33.0.0]

Transcend Timer is a timer for Transcendental Meditation. It does one thing: it holds the length of your practice so you do not have to. Three phases. Warm Up to settle in, Meditation, then Rest. Set each one once and press play — the home screen shows the plan, so starting is never a decision. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No guided voices. No courses, no narrators, no daily episode, no library to look through. Nothing plays unless you turn it on: the start and end sounds and the haptics are all off by default, because in TM the mantra is the technique and a bell is an interruption. THE SCREEN TELLS YOU WHERE YOU ARE Each phase has its own background, ordered by brightness rather than colour. Warm Up steps down toward meditation, meditation is nearly black, and rest lifts sharply. That lift is the largest change in light in the whole session and it happens the moment meditation ends — perceptible through a closed eyelid, so you can stay where you are until it comes. If you do open your eyes to check the time, the timer is large, centred, and set in figures that do not shift as they count down. PROGRESS Two counters: days you meditated, and days you meditated twice. A monthly calendar shows the shape of your practice — missed, once, twice — and pages back through every month you have kept. Completed sessions are written to Apple Health as Mindful Sessions. APPLE WATCH Run a full session from your wrist and leave the phone in another room. The Digital Crown sets the durations. The Smart Stack shows which phase you are in and how long is left. IF YOU WANT IT Curated sounds for the start and end of meditation, with their own volume so a cue can carry through twenty minutes of closed eyes. Ambiance: one looping sound that fades in as the session begins and out across the rest phase, at a volume set deliberately lower. Eight themes, each changing all four phases together and keeping the same order of light. Night dimming for sessions in the dark. Pause and resume, counting active time only. A daily reminder, if you set one. PRIVACY No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no advertising, no network requests. Your preferences stay on your device. Health data is read only to calculate your streaks and never leaves the phone. Transcend Timer is an independent app. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by any Transcendental Meditation organisation, and it does not teach the technique.